Angel with psaltery

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1415
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • St. Nicholas Church (Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England)
    Wooden angel on roof beam, north 10

Description

Psaltery, decacordum, played with the fingers.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Psaltery [3677]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 6, plate 10. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4130